Detained Al Jazeera Arabic journalist Abdullah Elshamy is said to have been transferred from his prison cell to an undisclosed location amid fears he could die "within a few days".

Elshamy (pictured: Al Jazeera) has been on hunger strike in an Egyptian prison for 113 days.

His lawyer, Shaaban Saeed, yesterday asked the authorities to move him within 48 hours to a hospital, Al Jazeera said. He warned that without immediate care he could die.